Today, 6 June 2007, Afternoon Edition

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  • 28 1 TODAY /A=DJJ-\CORP MICA (P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Wednesday June 6, 2007 todayonline.com TODAY /A=DIj\CORP MICA (P) 314/10/2006 we set you thinking Wednesday June 6, 2007 todayonline.com
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  • AFTERNOONEDITION
    • 409 1 -AGENCIES CYCLONE Gonu moved off the Arabian Sea early today and made landfall in Oman, where waves as high as a four-storey building pummelled the eastern shore. The cyclone spurred the sultanate's civil defences into full mobilisation, according to a statement
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    • 991 1  -  JASMINE YIN S Korean appointed head of troubled Youth Challenge jasmine@media corp. com. sg NEARLY a year after the wholesome image of Youth Challenge was tarnished by suggestions of financial irregularities, the charity is ready to start life anew. The charity, once famous for getting
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  • hot news
    • 401 2  -  LINYANQIN yanqin@media corp. com. sg CONTRARY to what the Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) fears, the increase in the Network for Electronic Tranfers (Nets) levy will affect only merchants, said Nets. "It is not a consumer issue in any way, and it
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    • 214 3  -  TAN HUI LENG huileng@media corp. com. sg AFTER three weeks of a steep rise, the number of dengue fever cases dipped last week to 225, from 254 the week before. Nevertheless, the number of dengue cases is still nearly triple that in the same period
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    • 578 3  -  ANSLEY NG No certs issued, they claim; teachers 'owed' their pay ansley@mediacorp.com.sg ANOTHER private school has come under fire from its students and teachers. Yesterday, about 40 students of Froebel Academy camped for two hours outside its Park Mall office before confronting the staff. The group,
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    • 301 3  -  TANHUILENG THREE brands of toothpaste from China containing an antifreeze and industrial solvent have been ordered off the shelves here by the Health Sciences Authority (HSA). Problems surfaced late last month in Panama, when diethylene glycol (DEG) was found in cough mixture made in
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    • 287 2 FINANCIAL GENIUSES TO SHARE THEIR \^/In I H Special Article MONEY makes money is an age old saying. In a recent newspaper article, it was highlighted that wealth is created by a small group of people whilst the lower income group is barely struggling along. This is because the latter
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  • singapore news
    • 501 4  -  GRACIA CHIANG Move to reduce excessive packaging in F&B industry sees 31 signatories gracia@mediacorp.com.sg THE next time you step into a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet, don't be surprised if chilli sauce is not given away in packets, but is instead available at a
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    • 298 4  -  SHERALYN TAY sheralyn@media corp. com. sg BEING energy-efficient helps the environment and a company's bottom-line, too. Some 58 manufacturers and buildings in Singapore have saved $13.9 million and reduced carbon emissions by 113,000 tons after implementing energy audits and energy-efficient measures, Dr Amy
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    • 288 4 938 LIVE A WOMAN who hid her stillborn baby in a locker at her workplace has escaped jail. Wong Lih Tyng, 37, was handed a 15-month probation and 80 hours of community service. She had kept the body at the Bishan
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    • 808 6  - IDR SHENZHEN OR ACHILLES' HEEL? JOHAN SARAVANAMUTTU LAST month's Langkawi meeting between the Malaysian and Singapore Premiers Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Lee Hsien Loong was a diplomatic coup of no minor proportion. The centrepiece was no doubt the agreement to set up a Joint Ministerial Committee overseeing economic cooperation in
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    • 573 8  -  CLEMENT MESENAS New book looks at racial riots against the island's social history EDITOR-AT-LARGE clement@mediacorp.com.sg THE closest to a riot that Singapore can get to these days is when tenants see red over en bloc sales with tempers rising and abusive words being hurled,
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    • 223 8 CLOSE supervision at all times, not only of children but also of weak swimmers, may go a long way in reducing accidents at pools and beaches. This simple but at-times forgotten tip comes from the National Water Safety Council in the wake of the latest drowning
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    • 390 10 -AGENCIES Indon President absent when asked to explain support of UN sanctions against Iran JAKARTA A special plenary session was thrown into disarray yesterday when President Susilo Bambung Yudhoyono did not turn up, sparking a storm of interruptions that eventually led to the postponement
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    • 271 10 -AFP KUALA LUMPUR A last-minute switch in the prosecution team handling a politically sensitive murder trial is a black eye for Malaysian justice, the parliamentary opposition leader, Mr Lim Kit Siang, said yesterday. Mr Lim also called for a thorough investigation into allegations by
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    • 262 10 THE GUARDIAN WASHINGTON The Bush administration's plans to bring two detainees at Guantanamo Bay to trial were thrown into chaos yesterday. Military judges threw out all charges against one detainee held there as a minor, and dismissed charges against another who chauffeured Osama bin Laden.
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  • world news
    • 272 11 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE and other Asian economies are expected to be resilient to potential shocks or equity price corrections, despite slowing global growth. According to World Bank economists in a Global Development Finance report released yesterday, this resilience is
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    • 320 11 -AFP BEIJING A watch awarded to a Chinese soldier for his role in the bloody 1989 Tiananmen crackdown has been put up for sale on eßay, with some of the profits supposedly going to victims' relatives. The starting price, U558,964 ($13,700), denotes the
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    • 62 11 -AFP A teenage soldier in China has died from bird flu, the World Health Organization said yesterday. It is the country's 16th death from the virus. The 19-year-old soldier, who served in the south-eastern Fujian province, was the first human bird flu case in China
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    • 52 11 —AP Dance classes will soon be mandatory for all Chinese secondary and elementary students, due to worries about increased obesity, the China Daily reported yesterday. The newspaper said the dance classes during class breaks or extracurricular time-will be compulsory starting Sept 1, quoting the Education
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    • 462 12 —AFP BANGKOK Thailand yesterday lifted a ban on political activities in the kingdom, paving the way for members of the dissolved Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party to regroup. "The Cabinet agreed for existing political parties and groups of politicians to carry out their political
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    • 170 14 -AFP ABUJA Nigeria has filed a lawsuit for US$7 billion ($10.7 billion) in damages from Pfizer over a drug test in which about 200 children were either killed or deformed, according to court officials. The federal government suit says the children suffered various degrees
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    • 317 14 AGENCIES SAN FRANCISCO United States police have arrested nine people charged with plotting to use rifles and rockets to overthrow the communist government in Laos, legal officials in California have said. The suspects, according to the criminal complaint, wanted to bomb Lao government
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    • 538 16 Germany's Angela Merkel wants to tackle global warming. Britain's Tony Blair seeks help for Africa. United States President George WBush wants help from allies for Iraq. All these hopes for the Group of Eight (G8) summit could fall victim to rising tensions with Russia, which is unhappy over
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    • 176 18 -BLOOMBERG WASHINGTON Makers of carrot juice and other low-acid drinks, like celery juice, should ensure the products are kept cold during distribution to prevent botulism poisoning, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said. The bacteria that cause botulism can grow unless
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    • 312 18 Multi-tasking is bad for health: Experts LONDON People who want to sharpen their multi-tasking skills may now need to think twice about it. Experts in the United States are saying that doing more than one thing at a time is mentally damaging, reported the
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  • Voices
    • 258 20  -  TANHAUTECK Adults must supervise children they take to the beach or swimming pool Letter from AFTER reading about little Lim Pei Er's drowning on Saturday, my heart goes out to her family at having to endure the loss of a loved one. The recent
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    • 200 20  -  UMPOHSENG Letter from I SEE a great need for organisers of mega events like the PC Show at the Suntec International Convention Centre to seriously think about crowd control and safety. One method used by the organisers to manage the crowd was to stop all
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    • 305 22  -  ABDUL SHARIFFABOO KASSIM Letter from IN THE area where I reside, young people often congregate at void decks, playgrounds and hawker centres. I can't help noticing that an increasing number of them sport tattoos, some with entire limbs covered in them. I have not found reliable
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    • 69 22 Twice in the last few weeks, I have waited at a taxi stand and seen a taxi pick up passengers on the street, a few car lengths away. There must be a rule that taxi drivers should not make street pickups within a certain distance of a designated taxi
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    • 226 24  -  SIMON NG YAP PENG Letter from I BELIEVE many shareholders were pleased to read the report on the Monetary Authority of Singapore and Singapore Exchange taking over the responsibility of overseeing corporate governance at public-listed firms. A good corporate governance system in listed companies not only
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    • 229 24  -  ERROLGOODENOUGH 'Official graffiti' could mislead the vandals Letter from IT HAS been 13 years since the Michael Fay case, which had sent an unequivocal message that Singapore will brook no nonsense when dealing with vandalism of public or private property. Since then, however, there are clear signs
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    • 86 24 I would like to thank Mr Rocky Chew for sharing his bad experience. We can all learn from such lessons and be prepared not to fall into the same trap of getting billed for the topping-up of a pre-paid card by a stranger. However, we should not allow a
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    • 264 26  -  DR JAMES DOBSON BY DEFUSING THE TEENAGE TIME BOMB The mother of a preschooler once asked me how she could raise her little girl so as to minimise the chances of adolescent rebellion down the road. She had seen teenagers in other families get into drug
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    • 198 26  -  JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG Letter from I READ with concern the report, "Spike in milk prices here" (June 2). Understandably, some retailers may be forced by circumstances to adjust their prices upwards, but a 50-per-cent hike on milk products is really too
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    • 314 26  -  YIMTATCHUEN Yishun pond guppies killed in unwitting play Letter from LAST Sunday, I took my family to the newly-opened Bottle Tree Park at Yishun Aye 1. One of its key attractions is a shallow pond where, for a fee, the operators provide fishing
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  • Business
    • 432 28  -  JOHNSON CHOO johnsonchoo@media corp.com.sg CRITICISED as being out-of-date and hardly representative of the Singapore stock market, the venerable old Straits Times Index (STI) will be undergoing a major overhaul after 40 years of existence. The benchmark will drop the number of component stocks from 49
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    • 135 28 CHANNEL NEWSASIA GERMAN conglomerate Siemens is setting up its global water research headquarters in Singapore, giving a boost to the Republic's water treatment industry. No investment figures have been given, but Siemens said the facility is part of the $52 million it is spending on
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    • 132 28 -AFP THE board of China Eastern Airlines (CEA) has okayed a plan to sell a combined 24-per-cent stake to Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Temasek Holdings through a share offer, state press said yesterday. SIA is to buy 1.24 billion new Hong Kong listed H-shares, or
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    • 199 29 -AFP AUSTRALIA'S Jetstar will consider adopting a franchise system to expand in South-east Asia if the 10-member Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) adopts an "open skies" policy next year, according to a report yesterday. The Australian Financial Review said flights within Asean were due
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    • 386 29 -AGENCIES Its limited currency flexibility is hurting regional growth CHINA'S limited currency flexibility is preventing countries in Asia from strengthening their currencies, contributing to a reserves buildup that is disrupting regional growth, a senior International Monetary Fund (IMF) official said yesterday. Domestically, China needs to allow
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    • 142 29 -BLOOMBERG TEMASEK Holdings and billionaire George Soros are amongst nine investors seeking to buy 26 per cent of the telephone infrastructure unit of India's Reliance Communications Ltd, said the Economic Times, citing sources. Reliance Communications, India's sec-ond-biggest wireless carrier, has gathered all its
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    • business news
      • 185 30  -  HEDIRMAN SUPIAN MANUFACTURING activity rebounded slightly last month after suffering a decline in April. A key indicator, the Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), hit 50.0 points in May, up from the previous month's 49.7 points. A reading below 50 indicates contraction in factory activity, while above 50 shows expansion.
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      • marketwatch
        • 4 30 ST Index 3,572.9 -6.5
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        • 24 30 BanJnn 0.210 +0.000 +40.0 203.243 Digiland 0.045 -152.008 UTAC 1.010 +0.040 +4.1 00.738 MiddleEastD 0.410 74.850 GlnbalTest 0.270 +0.025 +10.2 07.801
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        • 19 30 SGXRB QianHu UPPW*****0 0.415 0.555 0.080 +50.0 +40.1 +45.5 BanJoo DBS BNP 0.215 0.020 +43.3 +33.3
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        • 18 30 HSI*****SGA ChinaCITISGA HSI*****SGA 0.050 0.000 0.005 -00.7 -04.0 -03.0 HSI*****BNP ChinaCITIBNP 0.025 0.155 -37.5 -20.5
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        • 53 30 SGX, Bloomberg Information provided by Nikkei 225 *****.81 +80.30 +0.45 HK Hang Seng *****.15 +112.50 +0.54 Australia ASX200 0370.80 -22.10 -0.35 Korea Camp 1742.10 +4.00 +0.20 Thailand SET 700.50 -10.02 -1.30 Jakarta Camp 2003.11 -18.04 -0.88 Shenzhen B 050.31 +50.03 +8.21 Mumbai Sensex *****.01 +30.24 +0.27 Malaysia KLCI
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        • 128 30 -AFP Share prices closed 0.18 per cent lower on Tuesday as profit-taking erased earlier gains that had lifted the benchmark index to a new all-time high, dealers said. The ST Index closed down 6.45 points at 3,572.90 after touching a fresh intraday high of 3,596.27 in early trading. Volume
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        • 20 30 Gold US$/oz Silver US$/oz Platinum US$/oz 676.30 13.75 1,303.00 Rubber cents/kg Palm oil RM/tonne Brent US$/barrel 367.25 2880.00 71.00
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        • 27 30 USS 0.6534 UK£ 0.3278 Yen 79.567 HKS 5.1012 RM 2.2252 Euro 0.4838 Rupiah 5749.2 Baht 21.491 Peso 29.933 AS 0.7812 Rupee 26.482 Yuan 4.9937
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      • 133 30 -938 LIVE INSURER AIA will spend almost $2 million a year to fund a new training academy in Singapore so its agents are more tuned to needs-based selling. The company launched its AIA Financial Health Check Academy at One-North Campus yesterday, and hopes to
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      • 166 32 -BLOOMBERG MR LI Ka-shing (picture), Asia's richest man, paid more than HK$BO5 million ($157.7 million) to raise his stake in Cheung Kong Holdings to 39.63 per cent, the second time he has boosted his holding in his flagship developer in less than a
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      • 352 32 -BLOOMBERG It would be a rival for Singapore, Tokyo HONG Kong Exchanges Clearing, manager of Asia's thirdbiggest stock market, may choose advisers as early as this month to study the creation of a commodities derivatives exchange, Chairman Ronald Arculli said. "We'll be looking at things like
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      • 106 32 BLOOMBERG Japan needs to revise rules that prevent banks and brokerages from combining and to improve the transparency of regulations to raise its standing as a global financial centre, a key government panel said. An exchange should also be created to offer a wider
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    • the business of enterprise
      • Growth
        • 454 33  -  LINYANQIN yanqin@media corp.com.sg WHAT others throw away as waste, students Toh Yida (picture) and Varinder Singh see as opportunity. After two years of research, the Temasek Polytechnic chemical engineering students have finally decoded the secret of turning used cooking oil into a simple and
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        • 252 33 The National Library Board (NLB) launched Read! Singapore 2007, a nationwide reading initiative that aims to promote a culture of reading fiction among Singaporeans. Now in its third year. Read! Singapore 2007 is aptly themed "Ties That Bind" to cultivate community and
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